Pedro Picart Faiget

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-8862-8473
Knowledge area: Microbiologia

Research group: Biotecnologia Sostenible i Bioremediació

Contact Information
Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment


perepicart(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Grau en Biologia (2002)
Doctor en Biologia (2008)

Research interests

Bacillus subtilis strain improvement for the overproduction of micribal enzyms, biopolymers (PHB, bacterial cellulose) and secondary metabolites from plants (terpenoids)
Biomass valorization by using novel microbial enzymes with industrial application
Finding and development of novel antimicrobial compounds from endophytes to fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria

Projects

Grup de biodegradació de xenobiòtics i productes naturals: aspects bàsics i aplicacions a tecnologies netes . 2005 - 2009 . Ref.2005SGR00327 . Departament d'Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (Generalitat de Catalunya) DURSI . PI: Jose Vives Rego
Ingeniería de enzimas para biotecnología papelera. Desarrollo de celulasas para la mejora de las fibras recicladas . 2004 - 2007 . Ref.CTQ2004-07560-C02-02/PPQ . Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología . PI: Fco.I.Javier Pastor Blasco
Desarrollo de nuevos catalizadores enzimáticos para biotecnología de la lignocelulosa. Optimización de productos papeleros reciclados . 2007 - 2010 . Ref.CTQ2007-68003-C02-02/PPQ . Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia . PI: Fco.I.Javier Pastor Blasco
Grup de Biodegradació de Xenobiòtics i Productes Naturals: aspects bàsics i aplicacions a tecnologies netes . 2009 - 2013 . Ref.2009SGR819 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Fco.I.Javier Pastor Blasco
Diseño de herramientas biotecnológicas para el desarrollo de Componentes de microdispositivos biodegradables . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.CTQ2017-84966-C2-2-R . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: F.I.J. Pastor, P. Diaz
Producción de compuestos orgánicos volátiles y antimicrobianos mediante procesos biotecnológicos basados en el uso de endófitos e ingeniería metabólica - FITOMÁTICS . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.RTC-2017-6431-2 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Teresa Altabella Artigas

Relevant publications

Picart, Pere; Orejas, Margarita; Pastor, F. I. Javier. Recombinant expression of a GH12 beta-glucanase carrying its own signal peptide from Stachybotrys atra in yeast and filamentous fungi. In World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. Volume 32. Number 8. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-016-2091-7
Pere Picart; Anna Maria Pirttilä; Dora Raventos; Hans-Henrik Kristensen; and Hans-Georg Sahl. Identification of defensin-encoding genes of Picea glauca: characterization of PgD5, a conserved spruce defensin with strong antifungal activity. In BMC Plant Biology. 2012 . Institutional Repository
Pere Picart; Christoph Müller; Jakob Mottweiler; Lotte Wiermans; Carsten Bolm; Pablo Domínguez de María; Anett Schallmey. From gene towards selective biomass valorization: bacterial β‐Etherases with catalytic activity on lignin‐like polymers. In ChemSusChem. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201402465
Pere Picart; Marc Sevenich; Pablo Domínguez de María; Anett Schallmey. Exploring glutathione lyases as biocatalysts: paving the way for enzymatic lignin depolymerization and future stereoselective applications. In Green Chemistry. 2015 . Institutional Repository
Pere Picart; Pablo Domínguez de María; Anett Schallmey. From gene to biorefinery: microbial β-etherases as promising biocatalysts for lignin valorization. In Frontiers in Microbiology. 2015 . Institutional Repository
Pere Picart; Lotte Wiermans; María Pérez-Sánchez; Philipp M. Grande; Anett Schallmey; and Pablo Domínguez de María. Assessing Lignin Types To Screen Novel Biomass-Degrading Microbial Strains: Synthetic Lignin as Useful Carbon Source. In Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00961
M V Tejesvi*; P Picart*; M Kajula; H Hautajärvi; L Ruddock; H H Kristensen; A Tossi; H G Sahl; S Ek; S Mattila; A M Pirttilä (* equally contributed). Identification of antibacterial peptides from endophytic microbiome. In Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-016-7765-4
Pere Picart; Haifeng Liu; Philipp M Grande; Nico Anders; Leilei Zhu; Jürgen Klankermayer; Walter Leitner; Pablo Domínguez de María; Ulrich Schwaneberg; Anett Schallmey. Multi-step biocatalytic depolymerization of lignin. In Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-017-8360-z
L. Molina; K. Salek; P. Picart; S.R. Euston; T. Gutierrez; M. Guillen; D. Caudepon. Lab scale fermentation studies with marine bacteria to maximize the production of bioemulsifiers for cosmetic and food industries. In New Biotechnology. 2018 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.05.1244
Pere Picart; Javier Pastor; Margarita Orejas. Transcriptional analysis of the lichenase-like gene cel12A of the filamentous fungus Stachybotrys atra BP-A and its relevance for lignocellulose depolymerization. In International Microbiology. 2021 . Institutional Repository

Patents, Software and Database

New polypeptides from endophytes of empetrum nigrum and their fragments, encoding them, their production and uses (FINLAND, 15/03/2011)

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